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How you can Copy Files From iPod to iPod or iPhone

Copying your iPod library files - your music, your video, your ringtones - to a new iPod seems like an evident thing that folks might choose to do. Change your iPod into a newer, fancier model as an example. Share personal videos with friends (nah, we're not likely to speak about illegally sharing music, now shall we be held?). Give your little sister have some of the cool new tunes you've got added to your iTunes library because you gave her your old iPod. No brainers, right?

Apple, unfortunately, decided that ITunes really should not be in a position to help iPod owners try this, regardless how legitimate the requirement or use. Their logic appears to be to avoid illegal file sharing...which is a worthy cause, obviously.

Sadly, though, that means that everyone doing legitimate filesharing - and there's no shortage than it going on - get punished. It is just a 'guilty until proven innocent' approach.

Well, thank goodness for Vacation vendors.

The cream with the crop could be the IPod 2 iPod transfer utility, developed by The Boys DownUnder, a whole new Zealand firm, allows you to copy your files from one iPod to another via your neighborhood computer as well as across a network. It's remarkably simple to use.

You'll be able to drag and drop Songs, Playlists or Videos between iPods. You will find duplicate songs and delete the darn things, saving valuable space to get more music!

You may also sort your songs by artist, genre, albums and all the other activities you wish to sort by...to ensure, say, you prefer to share the tracks produced by your preferred local garage band (usually the one your location the drummer), there is no need to go wandering around your iPod to attempt to locate them and transfer them.

Ah...but let's say you donrrrt possess a computer and wish to transfer files anyway? Well, provide the Hitch iPod2iPod USB Transfer Device a look. Using this type of cool tool you are able to link two iPods - or some other USB enabled storage devices - and instantly transfer music, videos or any other data involving the two. You could connect your iPod for your photographic camera maybe usb drive, by way of example, and directly wondershare transfer videos from iPhone. The down-side of Hitch - in fact it is a large one - would it be only works with Windows-configured iPods. In the event that's not an option, then iPod2iPod...or perhaps the old 'transfer to iTunes - synch on the new iPod' may be the strategy to use.